1920: Volleyball invitation in Tacoma
An overly enthusiastic translator a generation after the frontier era needs a fact-check…
An overly enthusiastic translator a generation after the frontier era needs a fact-check…
As much as Chinook invitations were a Pacific Northwest institution…
Dusting off the Chinook to reminisce about a fundamental tragedy…
Twenty-five years after the closing of the frontier era, this Chinook Jargon from Canadian-born pioneer Josiah Sawyer “J. Sox” Brown (1845-1932) had to be translated for newspaper readers…
Mockery of the northwesternmost Natives to speak Chinuk Wawa is still evidence of how they spoke it!
We’ve seen this event covered before…
Straight out, this is some wacky (and in some ways wack) Chinuk Wawa that reader Alex Code sent my way…
An addition to the post-frontier “Chinook invitations” file:
The Improved Order of Red Men strike again.
The Daily Morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) Tuesday, March 27, 1888, column 3. I invite your interpretations of this text! Most of it’s quite clear. Some is new to me. — Dave Potlatch Club Ball.… Continue reading